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A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (4K scan, 2018-10-11)

by: Miles Brothers

Publication date: 1906

Topics: San Francisco, 1906, Market Street

This is a scan of 35mm material held by Prelinger Archives, San Francisco

and thought to be an original 1906 print.

It was scanned by Adrianne Finelli at Internet Archive on October 11, 2018

using IA's Lasergraphics ScanStation scanner set at 5120 x 3840 and scanned to 16fps. Due to Final Cut Pro limitations, this full-width scan is 4096 x 3072 pixels wide and every second frame is doubled for a playback framerate of 24fps.

Archives frequently make full-width scans to show information between the perforations that would normally be missing in a scan cropped to show only the picture area. Black printed-through perforations and other characteristics of the print may also be seen at certain points in the film.

For most people, your best download link will be to the "cropped higher-contrast version." Click "Show all" to see this file.

Anyone may reproduce or reuse this scan.

Please attribute it to its source: Prelinger Archives.

Contact Information: rick@archive.org

Addeddate: 2018-10-16 23:21:09

Color: B&W

External-identifier: urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:MarketStreet19064KScan20181016

Identifier: MarketStreet19064KScan20181016

Scanner: Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3

Sound: silent

Whisper_asr_module_skipped: No audio stream.

Year: 1906

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Reviewer: Spuzz - - February 20, 2023
Subject: All this, and sprockets too!

A rescan of this classic film gives us more on view here, as every sprocket hole (and detail around the edges) are seen in this film. Always a fun voyage of course, with it's chaotic goings on what with the cars, pedestrians and horses and carts (and I did see a man on a single horse as well!) and my favorite boy in the back of vehicle shot.

Reviewer: historynerd_103 - - August 10, 2022
Subject: 1906

For the person who said this was not 1906, fast forward to about 1:25 in this PBS clip.

https://youtu.be/Fm1XSX8Un5Q

Reviewer: Don MacGregor - - July 9, 2022
Subject: 1906

I concur with the editors and David Kiehn. The automobile licence plates are correct for 1906. In addition, the ladies fashion depicted in the sleeve detail, hats and accoutremements is c.1905. Matt, movie making may have been in its infancy however photographers would have had a very good understanding of their lenses, chemicals and their capabilities and limitations.

Reviewer: Sidd Rajput - - March 30, 2022
Subject: Colorized version

On YouTube, someone colorized and enhanced this footage. It's incredible to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkc83XA2dY

Reviewer: Rick Prelinger - - November 1, 2018
Subject: Definitely 1906

Matt, David Kiehn has done some pretty definitive research. See here, among many other places:

https://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2010/04/30/market-street-on-film-1906/

And while we often see deteriorated media from the first decade of the 20th century, much of it actually looks great and was beautifully shot.

Reviewer: mattydread - - November 1, 2018
Subject: 1906? Doubtful...

It's very unlikely this is 1906. Look at the number and type of cars. In 1906, the streets would still have been mostly full of horse-drawn vehicles. The cars of that time would have been very rudimentary and few and far between. Furthermore, I believe I see Model T's driving around and they didn't come on the scene until 1908. Therefore, this film probably dates from the early teens. By that time, San Francisco had largely been rebuilt with the masonry, stone facades you see in this film - the wooden buildings having burned in 1906. Finally, the film quality itself is way too good for 1906. Movie-making was likewise in it's infancy - and film of that time are short, poorly exposed. Still in all - interesting and worthy!

Reviewer: David Pierce - - October 21, 2018
Subject: Miles Brothers

The opening title should reference the Miles Brothers, not the Mills Brothers. The latter was a vocal quartet.

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